caurio

Latin edit

FWOTD – 1 October 2013

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cauriō (present infinitive caurīre); fourth conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stem

to caterwaul like a cat in heat
- 43 BCE—18, Ovid (attributed), Carmen de Philomela, 50:
  Tigrides indomitae raccant, rugiuntque leones; Panther caurit amans; pardus hiando felit.
  Untamed tigers make a hoarse sound, and lions roar; the rutting female panther caterwauls; the male panther, for uttering, snarls.

Conjugation of cauriō (fourth conjugation, no supine stem, no perfect stem, active only)
indicative		singular			plural
indicative		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	cauriō	caurīs	caurit	caurīmus	caurītis	cauriunt
	imperfect	cauriēbam	cauriēbās	cauriēbat	cauriēbāmus	cauriēbātis	cauriēbant
	future	cauriam	cauriēs	cauriet	cauriēmus	cauriētis	caurient
subjunctive		singular			plural
subjunctive		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	cauriam	cauriās	cauriat	cauriāmus	cauriātis	cauriant
active	imperfect	caurīrem	caurīrēs	caurīret	caurīrēmus	caurīrētis	caurīrent
imperative		singular			plural
imperative		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	caurī	—	—	caurīte	—
active	future	—	caurītō	caurītō	—	caurītōte	cauriuntō
non-finite forms		active			passive
non-finite forms		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		caurīre	—	—	—	—	—
participles		cauriēns	—	—	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		cauriendī	cauriendō	cauriendum	cauriendō	—	—

“caurio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
caurio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
caurio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.